tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file

The tracing_enabled file was used as a quick way to stop
tracers, and try to bring down overhead for things like
the latency tracers (irqsoff, wakeup, etc). But it didn't
work that well.

The tracing_on file was created as a really fast way to
stop recording into the ftrace ring buffer and can interact
with the kernel. That is a tracing_off() call in the kernel
can disable recording of events, and then from userspace one
could echo 1 into the tracing_on file to continue it. The
tracing_enabled function did too much to allow for this.

The tracing_on has taken over as a way to start and stop tracing
and the tracing_enabled file should not be used. But because of
its existance, it still confuses people. Over a year ago the
following commit was added:

 commit 6752ab4a9c30d5411b2dfdb251a3f1cb18aae487
 Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
 Date:   Tue Feb 8 13:54:06 2011 -0500

    tracing: Deprecate tracing_enabled for tracing_on

This commit added a WARN_ON() if the tracing_enabled file's variable
was changed. After this was added, only LatencyTop complained, and
they soon fixed their tool as there was no reason that LatencyTop
should touch this file as it was using the perf ring buffers which
this file does not interact with. But since that time no one else
has complained about this WARN_ON(). Thus it is safe to assume that
this file is no longer needed. Time to get rid of it.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 3c9b96aee51a964d68809015f4b06f130c741c6a..d5cbc0d3f209b856627ada90d925a75887c5c584 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4788,9 +4788,6 @@ static __init int tracer_init_debugfs(void)
 
        d_tracer = tracing_init_dentry();
 
-       trace_create_file("tracing_enabled", 0644, d_tracer,
-                         &global_trace, &rb_simple_fops);
-
        trace_create_file("trace_options", 0644, d_tracer,
                        NULL, &tracing_iter_fops);